category: weird
there's a fortyish german dude who lives across the street from me. he has a wife. i know this because i see her one or twice a year. i also see her car leave their garage every couple weeks and i suspect she's driving it. the rest of the time, she's inside the house. thus, she is inside the house almost all of the time. the german dude also has a mother-in-law who i've met. she arrives every friday morning and departs every monday morning. but let's focus on the star of the show. the german dude, like his wife, definitely does not have a job outside of the house because he's almost always home. we wave at each other intermittently. i've never really met him, but i was around him once when i was trying to help a neighbor girl find her mom. i told him what was going on, he said hello to the five year-old girl, and at that point i could tell that the conversation was over. anyway, he has two german shepherds and a bizarre ritual. every morning, he walks out to his suv, opens up the back, walks back to the garage, gets out a ramp for the dogs, places it on the back of the suv, goes back to the garage, does some crap, comes back out with the dogs (unleashed), leads the dogs up the ramp one at a time, takes down the ramp, does some more crap, and, well, i'll just stop there. i'm leaving out lots of little, meticulous details, but this whole process takes about twenty minutes and he does it every day. in exactly the same way. every day. so, then he drives off with the dogs, comes home after half an hour or so, and does the entire process again in reverse. i mean, is it just me or is this kinda peculiar?
